The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-09-02
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN
MRS. CRAWFORD. Paris correspond
ent of the London Daily News and
Truth. is said to earn ten thousand dol
lars year by her pen.
NINE. TRELAT left nearly all her
property, about f4OO. 900. to the Paris
municipality, to found.a school for the
training of girls in household duties.
Miss JULIA WARD HOWE has re-
ceived set of silver from the Sons Of
st. George, as q testimonial for her
services to the lodge on the occasion
of the Queens jubilee.
Mrs. HESTER NJ. Poole, for the las
nine years editor of a woman's depar
ment in the Religio- Philosophical Jour
nal. retires from her post crowned
with high encomiums from the editor
in-chief, and with the genuine regre.
of all who have read her column.
Mrs. DIR. ELLIS, an American lady.
is physician to the Queen of COrea.
She has apartments in the royal palace
at Seoul. and receives a yearly salary
which is equal to eighteen thousand
dollars. She is expected to visit the
Queen daily, and remains in call when
Her Majesty is indisposed.
Mrs. JOHN FIELD. of Philadelphia,
has given paintings. eighty-three in all,
to Williams College. and money to
erect building for Sanderson Acad-
envy, at Ashfield. The paintings in
clude works by Rousseau, Troyon.
Weld. Kensett and Cropsy. In the
building at Ashfield for Sonderson
Academy, q memorial room will bt
fitted up in memory of her husband.
MRs. MARGARET w. CAMPBELL. o
East Des Moines. Ia, advises the WON
en- of that State to offer their votes a
the next election, claiming that womer
may vote there without violating any
law. The constitution of Iowa desig
mates male citizens as voters, but il
nowhere in express terms prohibits fe-
male citizens from voting.
Miss S. NJ. HOLLETT, formerly en-
crossing clerk in the Iowa Senate
now of Denison. Ia. has inaugurated
in Crawford County a system. which
has worked SO successfully elsewhere
of reporting each day the sales. mort
| cages, mechanics liens, chattel mort
cages and judgments filed. She ex
amines daily the official records. pre-
pares and distributes the repOrt
through the mail to her patrons. wht
find it valuable assistance in theil
business. Miss Hollett's enterprise ha.
proved successful beyond her expecta
lions, and is an evidence of the ca
pacity and energy of the Iowa girls.
MARY PEABODY, of Salem. became
the wife of the late Horace Mann. VIII,
had head rs destitute of imagination
as Hawthorne's was full of it. Sh'
| wrote the novel of slave life in Cubs
entitled "Juanita," which was pub
lished last spring, few weeks aftel
her lamented death. and was the con
slant companion of her sister Eliza
beth. who is the original promoter o
the kindergartens. which Mrs. Quincy
Shaw has taken under her special pro
lection. Sophia Peabody had the fort
une to wed the shy but powerful 70
mancer, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Shs
was equal to the situation. and in tn
"Life of Hawthorne" which has beer
written by his. son, there is nothing
more beautiful than the womanly sym
pathy which she supplied to the maj
of genius.
Mrs. F. A. w. SINNER, who, thirty
five years ago, co-Operated with Mis-
Gregory in founding the Mount Car
roll Seminary, at Mount Carroll, LII.
and who for many years has been it!
sole proprietor, giving the best ener
gies of her life to its service, to in
sure, not only the continuation but TIL
growth of the institution. wishes t.
put it under the control of those hav
ing ability and funds, who are warmly
interested in the higher education o
women. She proposes to donate thu
seminary property free of incum
brance, to an association that viii
raise an endowment of 800, OOO-b,
this association composed of forme1
students. an orthodox religious body
| or the two united-this endowment t.
be placed under the control of boari
of trustees, and the income used f0l
the benefit of the institution.